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The twenty-five essays included in this volume, which is actually a sequel to Studies in Literary Criticism (2001), is a selection of articles published in different journals and periodicals. Most of the essays were occasioned by seminars and conferences held in India and abroad, and were published in different books and journals over a long period of time. The purpose of collecting some of them in this volume is to make them easily accessible to the students and scholars who are interested in the areas dealt with. The volume covers a wide spectrum of areas and begins with the good old Shakespeare, and includes essays on mainstream canonical authors such as Conrad, Joyce, Yeats, Eliot, Owen, Golding. Furthermore, it also addresses some major writers outside the mainstream British literature such as Hemingway from America, Craven and Kroetsch from Canada, Brodsky the exile, and a bunch of Indian authors—from Nirad C. Chaudhuri to Amit Chaudhuri, including Gita Mehta, V. Tendulkar, Arundhati Roy, Manoj Das, Girish Karnad in-between—and above all Rabindranath Tagore as also the great ancient Sanskrit poet K?lid?sa.